Optimal absorption of flexural energy in thin plates by critically coupling a locally resonant grating

[EN] The optimal absorption of flexural energy by the critical coupling of a locally resonant grating embedded in a thin plate is reported in this work for the reflection and transmission problems. The grating is made of a 1D-periodic array of local resonators. A viscoelastic coating is also placed...

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Autores: Leng, J., Gautier, F., Pelat, A., Groby, J. -P., Romero-García, Vicente|||0000-0002-3798-6454, Picó Vila, Rubén|||0000-0003-3537-9658
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/200533
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/200533
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Flexural Waves
Perfect Absorption
Multiple Scattering
Metamaterials
Critical Coupling
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Sumario:[EN] The optimal absorption of flexural energy by the critical coupling of a locally resonant grating embedded in a thin plate is reported in this work for the reflection and transmission problems. The grating is made of a 1D-periodic array of local resonators. A viscoelastic coating is also placed on top of each resonator to control the intrinsic losses of the system. The scattering matrices for the propagative waves of both problems are obtained by means of the Layered Multiple Scattering Theory and validated by the Finite Element Method. In this work, we find that the perfect absorption can be obtained in the reflection problem and the maximal absorption in the transmission problem is limited to 50% by tuning the losses only. These results agree with the theoretical predictions since the eigenvalues reduce to the reflection coefficient in the reflection problem and only one of the two eigenvalues of the scattering matrix is critically coupled in the transmission problem. These results highlight the adaptability of the critical coupling method to optimize the absorption of locally resonant materials for flexural waves in 2D transmission and reflection problems, and pave the way to the design of resonators for efficient flexural wave absorption.